This is the 11th straight year in which Missouri has qualified five or more wrestlers to the NCAA Championships.

This will be Porter's first NCAA appearance in his first year as a starter. Larson and Haynes have qualified for the NCAA Championships for the fourth consecutiveseason. Waters and Dom Bradley will open as the No. 1 seeds nationally in their respective brackets.

Last year, Waters, Bradley, and Larson went 3-2 at Nationals with only Waters winning his first match.

The program finished the regular season ranked No. 4 by the NWCA/USA Today Coaches Poll.

Over the past 14 years in which head coach Brian Smith has been at the helm, 14 Missouri wrestlers have been crowned All-American with nine earning multiple honors. In all, Mizzou has claimed 26 All-America slots since Smith has been at Mizzou, which includes four national champions.